THE LARRY SUMMERS' MEMO TO COLLEAGUES AT THE WORLD BANK *

Dear Colleagues,

                            It’s more cost effective

That we should dump our toxic waste

In third world countries.  Our perspective

Is that we act with all due haste.

These countries promise some solution

For health impairments from pollution

Where people work to ripe old age.

In order that we stifle rage,

We need to see our friends elected

In countries where the death rate’s highs

Will average those of tsetse flies.

In Africa, the dark-complected

Have atmosphere and land to spare

Because they hardly breathe the air.

* For a verification of this see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo